Football Games And Commercials
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So far so good at half-time as the Redskins are ahead 14 to 3 against the NY Giants. Charlie says he’s happy. I’m not caring all that much except that there are a lot of Redskins fans in our family. Football seems to me to be more about selling automobiles because if there are one hundred plays during the game there are at least one hundred car commercials. Each of them is trying to involve me in some story line in about the first ten seconds. And most of them are complete fantasies out there in left field. I’m sorry about bringing in a baseball reference there. It’s the same thing in baseball and I care about as much for those guys as the football guys. I mean it’s crazy. I have this little three inch screen embedded in my monitor so I can watch it out of the corner of my eye. And I just saw somebody with huge wings come down and stuff a basketball into a basketball hoop. I can’t tell you what it was about because the sound is muted. I would go insane if the sound was not turned off.
But the car commercials are all about building some sort of buddy relationship in the first few seconds so they can go on and sell you something. Your average introvert is not going to go for this. So there goes thirty percent of your audience right there. Do these guys really think they are selling cars with these commercials. All they are doing is providing folks with a chance to stock up on drinks and chips. The only time you ever see lines to the bathrooms at our house is during these commercials.
I do have to admit that Howie, Terry and the gang are pretty interesting during the half-time show. We do try to get things done in time to catch them. Terry in particular is one of my favorites. I latched onto him one day when I saw an interview of him at home. He was living in a trailer down the hill from his mansion. His estranged wife was living in the mansion. I knew at that moment he was my football hero. It pays to listen to Terry when they get going during half-time and he starts laughing. Because you never really know what’s going to come out of his mouth. It couldn’t possibly be prescripted. Howie on the other hand is prescripted. Howie has his script memorized up until the day he departs for football heaven. And I need to be careful here because I know Howie is around here somewhere and his son plays football up the road in Charlottesville. I like Howie a lot but I do love Terry. The two of them make a great team because they are so opposite in their personalities. And who are the other guys?
Well, football is back. I’m not going to go back and change the score. The skins got another field goal. Now the Giants have scored a touchdown and they are all happy. If it was just like this all afternoon I could really enjoy it. But this moment is only a prelude to what?
A dog, a cat and a bird escaping from a house and running down the street. Too bad. They were probably watching television for the past few hours while their feeders were out doing whatever. Now they have liberated themselves and can recover at their own leisure in a pasture somewhere. They may be hungry, hurt or frightened. But at least they won’t have to worry about Howie, Terry or the thousands of actors who do commercials for a living hoping one day to be Tom Cruise.
Come to think of it I wouldn’t mind being Tom Cruise. But wait. He’s into that religion. If I was Tom that stuff would have to go. But his wife could stay. That would not be a problem. Now there’s a real fantasy. Maybe I should be writing scripts for commercials! Sorry Charlie. What’s the score of the game now?
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